From the Diary of an Antimarxist

From Karl Polanyi
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[1] Scrolling through yellowing manuscripts struck a strange idea. Or they could have been in office for forty years. Contemporary people paid a high price for their flame-discovering discoveries.

The blood circulation was barely discovered by Harvey when it was already used by the medical world for an emergency treatment. Fever, after all, is nothing but a symptom of rubbing - the walls of blood vessels heated by the rushing blood must be freed from the pressure of the thick liquid in order for the trouble to subside. The healing effect of vascular cutting should be promoted by abundant watering so that the diluted fluid runs more smoothly in the blood vessels. Thousands of patients have died from this kind of scientific medical expert.

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The discovery of social laws through the works of a Robert Owen, Auguste Comte, Quetelet, Herbert Spencer, or Karl Marx has been interpreted by contemporaries as finally holding the key to the future. Then only obscurantist Kurds ________ liberate humanity from the curse of misery. Of course, your medicine was selected! Owen from the immediate complete abolition of religions, Comte from a sociological ecclesiastical hierarchy, under his own papacy, Spencer from the inhumanities of free competition to the knife tip, Quetelet's social physics from the disciplining power of moral statistics,

I learned the lesson with a gesture: - Marx's scientific policy is nothing more than the entanglement of intellectual achievements in the temptation of frequency. His ingrained sociology could not be directly transposed into politics, nor could the great discovery of a Harvey into the medical practice of the age.


És másik kézirata bukkantam ugyanis, amely már ugylátszik a sajátivásu anti-marxizmusomat kezdte ki. Nem-

Mindezt az "Irodalmi Ujság" egy minapi cikke idézte emlékezetembe, amely "Tudomány és zsarnokság" [3] […] A Locke-Ricardo-Marx-i […] A Lewis Henry Morgan féle antropologia […]

Ricardo-Hegel'Marx-i […]

[4] Marx és Engels a tizenkilendecedik […] Hegel, […] Robert Mayer (…) Darwin

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Hand-written transcription in English

[8] Reading through the yellow line-worn pages of manuscript the illusion came ___ the spell of {value} a curious trend of thought. People who was loving in ____ of brilliant discoveries – to the argument __ -

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Text Informations

Reference:
Original Draft: “Egy ‘antimarxista’ naplójából
KPA: 37/10 (7 typed p.; 2 manuscript p. translated in English)
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FR D'après le journal d'un antimarxiste